City In Brief From The City Newsroom
A compilation of local items includes items about calls for Red Cross, arcade and bowling alleys reopening, and residents visiting Chicago Indianapolis and Albuquerque. Notes cover pear picking, tuberculosis congress trip, injuries from a fall, and local rentals for seven room apartments and a cottage. Also mentioned are a charity rummage sale, gear for a school wiring contract, a lost pin, and a local horse race update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A.little
Washington
Scephone Stauffer
Archie R. Wilson
Camden
Sam Caw
Addie Shaver
High Street
Marion Shorte
Lowell
Ind
Elvira
Lillian Olson
Chicago
John Redwald
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Marie Cushman
Indianapolis
Michigan Ave
B. Etnire
Cicott
Local notices mix rent ads and theater listings in Kokomo
Local items report a flat for rent at 319 Pearl Street and a fall opening for Wiler & Dont miss a Crystal show and a Ark performance of A Comedy in Black and White. Other notes include travel, appointments, a steam boiler upgrade, street fair preparations, club formation, and medical congress coverage.
Local notices and ads clutter daily page events
Readable items include a moonlight dance at Stettiner on Oct 16, a local radio show at the Ark, sales and rentals at various addresses, a department store ad for Paris-model suits, and a church supper. Also notes on residents returning from trips, job leads, and a creamery milk prize winner with butterfat percentages.
Boy on Stretchers After Beam-Driven Accident at Delphi
Sixteen year old Eddie Land, an engineer for a merry-go round at Delphi, broke his leg when he put on too much Beam. He was loaded on a stretcher and taken to a Kokomo hospital Saturday evening after being struck between cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Land
Delphi
Kokomo
Beaver Creek Kentucky Coal Offered by Sole Agents
Sole agents for Beaver Creek Kentucky coal offer best coal in large or small lots. John Hedde 432 High erect phone 1700.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Creek
Kentucky
John Hedde
Hose found abandoned by thieves at Eleventh and Spear
Police recovered about 100 feet of lawn hose at the corner of Eleventh and Spear streets. The item appeared to have been dropped by fleeing thieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh and
Spear Streets
Returned to School After Illness
Walter Jenkines son of Attorney A G Jenkines who was brought to this city after suffering an attack of appendicitis returned to school at Lawrenceville New Jersey this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Jenkines
A G. Jenkines
Lawrenceville
N. J
Kokomo Country Club Defeats Local Team in Tight 17 16 Match
Ten members of the local Country club golf team traveled to Kokomo yesterday morning and faced the Kokomo Country club team in a close afternoon battle. Kokomo won 17 to 16 after a day that included a big dinner and royal treatment for visiting players. Several women accompanied the locals and witnessed the match. They departed at 9 AM and returned that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Club
Kokomo
Public sale on John Hoover farm near Twelve Mile
Mrs Naomi V Cook sells horses cows hogs and farming implements at public auction on Wednesday October 14 1908 starting 10 am at John Buck Hoover farm one mile north of Twelve Mile Col Foster & Sons are auctioneers Lunch available on the grounds
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi V. Cook
Twelve Mile
John (Buck) Hoover
Col. Foster & Sons
Millinery Opening Continues This Week at Golden Rile
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT notes ongoing millinery opening this week. FOR RENT listing offers a living and rooming flat with 10 rooms and bath at 223% 4th St by V. E. Seiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. E. Seiter
Social Circles and Club Meetings Highlight Local Weekend
Mr. and Mrs. W E Foy celebrated their thirty fifth wedding anniversary at 323 Eleventh Street with friends including J W Foy Arthur St Clair Homer Foy Walter Fidler and Lulu Purcell. The Woman's Progressive club opened its year at 117 Tenth Street on president's day with full attendance. Mrs Max G Hoffman of 2400 High Street will host W A members tomorrow from 2 50 to 5 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E.foy
Eleventh Streets
J. W. Foy
Arthur St. Clair
Homer Foy
Walter Fidler
Purcell
Lulu
Woman's Progressive Club
J. F. Zorger
Tenth Street
Max G. Hoffman
High Street
W. A
Local Fraternal and Charity Meetings Planned Across Town
The Watson club meets Tuesday at 8 in the G A R hall. Ladies of the G A R gather tomorrow at 2 30. Trinity Guild convenes tomorrow afternoon with Mrs Emma Laraway. Red Men Wea tribe No 170 meet tomorrow evening for important business. Broadway M E church Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets tomorrow at 2 30 with Miss Alice Jones. Apollo lodge No 62 K of P meets this evening with social oyster supper. Bridge City Lodge No 505 Knights invited to join. Masons bound for Peru to meet Wednesday at 1 pm sharp. transport arrangements require attendance. All members to bring aprons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson Club
G. A R
Trinity Guild
Emma Laraway
West Market Sireet
Wea
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Broadway
M Eckhurch
Alice Jones
Eighth
North Streets
Apollo Lodge
Bridge City Lodge No
W. B. Williams
Peru
Masonic Temple
Burglars Strike Bridge City Plant On South Side
Burglars entered the old Bridge City Construction plant on the South Side Saturday night and stole small value articles from the site now used by a tomato seeding company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Bridge City Construction Company
Sixth Street Bridge Reopens After New Floor Installed
Street Commissioner Ed Truax reports the new bridge floor is complete and Sixth Street Bridge is opened to the public again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Truax
Sixth Street Bridge
Magpie Convicts Boy In Lindsey's Court
In Denver, Judge Lindsey presided over a juvenile theft case involving Louis Quinlan and John Quinlan. A neighbor testified a magpie saw the smaller boy steal $2. The bird identified the culprit, leading to Louis Quinlan's sentencing to the reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magpie
Boy
Lindsey’s Court
Denver
Lindsey
Juvenile Court
Lame
Louis
John Quinton
YMCA Boys Vote Ot Unique Civics Election Plan
Logansport youths and nationwide participants aged 14 to 18 will hold a national mock election on October 31 to choose a president and vice president. The program uses a card system and lectures on civics to ensure qualified voters cast ballots and prevent election-day packing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
United States
Young Men’s Christian Association
A. A. Jameson
Thirty-third Street Y. M. C. A
New York
Newspaper ads drive theatre attendance say Hurtig Seamon manager
Hurtig and Seamon's manager Cr. P. Grenecker reports a controlled test at One Hundred and Twenty fifth Street New York showing 75 percent of theatregoers cited newspaper ads as their attraction. He used billboards sandwiched with direct mail and street handouts. He concludes newspapers offer the strongest local advertising reach and should receive the bulk of ad budgets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAllister
Hurtig & Seamon's
Greneier
Berlin Doubts Turkish Advance Sparks Balkan Rumors
Telegrams from southeastern Europe claim Turkish forces move toward the Bulgarian frontiers while Bulgarian efforts to secure remounts intensify. Berlin dismisses the reports as unreliable, maintaining Bulgaria will yield the Orient railroad in Rumelia and avoid declaring independence at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Europe
Bulgaria
Orient
Rumelia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Josh Wise
L’aints
Red Cross
the Ark
Virgie
Fannie Purcell
Alice Tremp
Frank Gries
Wabash
A. Lave
J.D. McNitt
A. V. Patton
Market
Wiler & Wise, Inc
John C. Davis
Indiana Medical College
G. Lb. Davis
G. W. Cann & Company
Belfontaine
Ohio
L. Grubbs
Radkey
Seventeenth Streets
F. W. Terflinger
Longcliff Hospital
Burlington Avenue
George Penn
North Manchester
Co. P. Smith
W. S. Wirick
Prudential Insurance Company
Lafayette
Gertrude Johnson
Washington, D. C
New York City
Edward H. Beatty
Panhandle
Samuel Sales
Young America
Panhande Brakeman
M. Kceé
Roann
Matilda Drysdale
Spear Street
H. J. Stansbury
Noop
Tus
North Street
T. C. Keppler
Elkhart
Walter EK. Rosenthal
Rosenthal
J. M. Johnston
George W. Waler
Winamac
Deacon
Luther McDowell
Frank Emire
Clarence Simpson
St. Paul
Manchester
P.rank
Arthur Apple
Nipple
William Dunn
Los Angeles
Cal
Kirk Stevens
Bride
California
Mr. Dunn
Mrs. Dunn
B. C. Stevens
J. A. Little
Robert Hessler
Koch
Germany
Untenberger
Russia
Roosevelt
Potomac
Norfolk
Geo
Mullendore
Third St
A. P. Jenks
Petoskey
High St
Radiant
Michael F. Sullivan
M. E
Timothy Sullivan
George Street
Ruth
May Duncan
Thomas Shanahan
Adops
Robert E. Hammontree
Baby
Rochester
Claude Allen
Marion
Chester Kilborn
Paris
Harry Wright
English Lake
J. Carney
Alice Dean
Sitka
Third Street
Wiser & Wise, Inc
Adelle Langman
Market Street
St. Louis
Rel
Samuel Berry
Ocean Springs
Mississippi
M. Berry Anoka
Adamsboro
Cass County
Ben Gear
Washington Township
Will Bolt
West Side
John Schmidt
Marshall Club
Centre School House
Montgomery
George Shirly
Yorktown
J. M
Nebraska
Shirly
K. J. Mehaffie
Ray & Arnold Cream
Elttos SF
YMCA
Dla
Harlem
Hurtig & Seamon’s
Ifth Street
Cr. P. Grenecker
Playhouse
Hast Schaffner & Ma
Coats
Renee
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Hart
Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Rothschild Bros
the Globe
Market St
Tudor-Mason
Wesley P. Mason
Dallas
Texas
Therresa Tudor
Mason
Porter's Cigar Store
J.B. Kingery
Dykeman
Royal Slave Cigar Store
Fourth Street
JOS. &. Bahr
Harris & Malone
Sigms Ang
W.H. Filley
Miami Ave
J. Ww. Smit
Routh Bros
G. M. Wehnster
Pearl St
Indiana Loan CO
Crawford's
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